CIR has adopted the European Biometric Data Base

Common Repository Identity or simply CIR: The European Parliament voted last week to implement a new set of border control systems for immigration and law enforcement. THE will acquire a gigantic database of biometric data of citizens of the EU and other countries (PDF).

This new database will also be known as Common Repository Identity (CIR) and will contain data from 350 million people.

According to the EU plan, the CIR will collect records at the same time (names, dates of birth, passport numbers and more) and biometrics (fingerprints and facial scans). This data will be made available to all Law Enforcement Authorities as well as border control.

Its primary role (according to the EU) will be to cut jobs in border controls and law enforcement agencies, as searching in a unified system will take place much faster.

The systems to be integrated include the Schengen Information System, Eurodac, the Visa Information System (VIS) and three new systems: the European Criminal Records System (ECRIS-TCN), the Entry System / EES) and the European System Information and Travel Authorization (ETIAS), EU officials said last week.CIR

Η of the CIR database was approved by the European Parliament last Monday, April 15, in two separate votes. CIR regulations on borders and controls received 511 votes in favour, 123 against, and nine abstentions, while CIR legislation on police and judicial cooperation, asylum and immigration was approved by 510 votes in favour, 130 against, with nine abstentions abstinence.

The European Parliament has promised "adequate safeguards" to protect citizens 'right to privacy and to regulate officers' access to data.

Ever since plans to create this biometric database were announced last year, privacy advocates have not stopped criticizing the EU, saying the creation of the CIR is a "point without return (PDF)” to the creation of a “central EU database for Big ".

Once installed, CIR will become one of the world's largest human data tracking databases, just like the systems used by the Chinese government and the Aadhar system in India.

In the US, the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the Federal Bureau of Investigations have similar biometric databases.

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